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From a review by Robert Weissman, Multinational Monitor(Vol. 16, No. 7-8), July-August 1995: Pratap Chatterjee and Matthias Finger convincingly argue that
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the Earth Summit should not be forgotten or ignored, dismissed as a lost opportunity or as nothing more than a grand spectacle. Their central claim in The Earth Brokers is that the Earth Summit marked a major achievement for big business. It consolidated multinational corporations' role as purported agents of ecological change and promoted, rather than challenged, current unsustainable patterns of development in both the industrialized North and the poor South. Non-governmental organizations, they contend, allowed themselves to be coopted into the UNCED preparatory process, and ultimately into the UNCED vision of global management. For Chatterjee and Finger, UNCED was not an isolated event, but the culmination of the decades-long evolution of development ideology. During the last 25 years, developmental theorists have struggled to adapt their equation of growth and industrialization with progress to the challenge posed by environmentalism. The Earth Summit resolved the manner in which developmental ideology would respond to the environmental challenge.
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